Picker-stick for looms.



Patented Oct. 7', 1902..

E E L W l m. E D L W H PIGKER STICK FOR LOOMS. (Afiplication filed June a, 1901.

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HENRY XVILDE AND JOSEPH W. LEE, OF NEl/V LONDON, CONNECTICUT.

PlCKER-STICK FOR LOOMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 710,827, dated October '7, 1902.

Application filed June 8, 1901. Serial No. 63,756. (No model.)

To rtZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, HENRY WILDE and JOSEPH XV. LEE, citizens of the United States, residing at New London, in the county of New London and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Picker-Sticks for Looms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to picker-sticks for looms, and the principal object in view is to provide means for greatly increasing the life and durability of the stick and picker.

The cost of supplying picker-sticks for a large weaving plant forms quite an item in the running expenses and also effects a loss of time in repairing a machine. Various eX- pedients have heretofore been resorted to for increasing the life of a picker-stick; but in most instances the expedients have been objectionable and worthless on account of the employment of screws, bolts, and various parts which cause the device to go to pieces and sometimes cause considerable damage to the goods in the loom.

The object of the present invention is to provide a protecting-sleeve for a picker-stick which will prevent rapid wear by contact with the picker.

It is also an object of this invention to so apply the protecting-sleeve as to avoid the necessity of forming holes or openings through the picker-stick, and thereby weakening the same. The protecting-sloeve of this invention is constructed in such manner that it will keep itself in place on the stick, the retaining or fastening means being integral with the sleeve. The sleeve is fastened in such manner as to render it impossible for the same to work loose during the running of the loom.

WVith the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a sufficient portion of a picker-stick to illustrate the application of the improvement thereto. Fig. 2 is a crosssectional view of the same at the lower lip portion.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawmgs.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a picker-stick of the ordinary shape and configuration, the same being made rectangular in cross-section and tapering or smaller at one end than the other. The protecting means forming the subject-matter of this invention consists of a sleeve 2, which is preferably of sheet metal and which is of the same shape in cross-section as the picker-stick, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings. The protectingsleeve 2 is detachable and reversible from side to side and is placed upon the picker-stick at the point where the latter is subjected to the greatest wear, and in order to securely hold said sleeve in place on the picker-stick V-shaped incisions or indentations are made in the sleeve 2, at or near the opposite ends thereof, as illustrated at These incisions or indentations are made in such manner that the points or extremities of the pointed lips thus formed point in opposite directions. The pointed lips may be formed in the sleeve either before the sleeve is applied to the picker-stick or after the same is applied, and by means of a suitable implement the pointed lips are driven into the picker-stick or caused to partially penetrate the fiber of the stick to produce V- shaped depressions 1 in the picker-stick and become positively and firmly engaged therewith, whereby the said protecting-sleeve is prevented from working loose on the stick during the operation of the loom.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that the protecting-sleeve is formed in one piece and that the retaining pointed lips are integral with the sleeve, thus avoiding the employment of separate parts which would have to be connected by mechanical devices and render the device as a whole liable to go to pieces and work loose on the picker-stick. The device will elfect a material saving in the expenses of running a large plant and will also avoid the loss of time occasioned by frequent repair. It will also be observed that the sleeve is readily detachable and reversible from side to side, so as to provide two wearing-faces. The pointed lips being arranged to point toward each other prevent movement of the sleeve endwise until the latter is pulled off.

Having thus described the invention, we

5 claim as new- A picker-stick for looms tapering toward its upper end, and a sleeve of the same contour as the portion of the stick over whch it is to fit, the sleeve being slidable onto the [0 stick and reversible side for side, and having reversely-extending pointed fastening devices which are out therefrom and driven into the stick after the sleeve is applied to the latter.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatnres in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY .WILDE. JOSEPH WV. LEE. Witnesses:

G. S. BRADDOCK, JOSEPH LEE. 

